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, but there isn't a great deal of confidence in washington. there's less in congress. at this point, are they sort of conscious of what could happen if they make the wrong decision or are they more interested in where they will lose their core support. democrats and republicans that play to their basis. >> it's one of the reasons the president thinks they have higher ground because he just won an election and even though the republicans kept the house, democrats kept up in the senate. approval ratings are still in the tank. but they created this cliff with their short-term band-aid before and the process they have created now makes it harder to get a solution. as diane talked about the need for a big solution, everybody knows they need to do something in the short-term. if the republicans give ground on rates, their base sending a letter out to the republicans, fight, fight, fight, don't raise taxes, pressure the president. then democrats, labor unions, the aarp saying we don't need to cut medicare. touch social security. every time you have a
, but there isn't a great deal of confidence in washington. there's less in congress. at this point, are they sort of conscious of what could happen if they make the wrong decision or are they more interested in where they will lose their core support. democrats and republicans that play to their basis. >> it's one of the reasons the president thinks they have higher ground because he just won an election and even though the republicans kept the house, democrats kept up in the senate....
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here we have america urging the israe israelis to negotiate except us in washington. our parties are so extreme. >> i think the moral is set so low right now on both sides. the country is so divided. we are the one that is are going to be handed down the $16 trillion deficit. it is hard for this to play out. they will come to some sort of a deal. you are going to see them come to a deal. you are going to see them with something sort of like the simpson bowles. >> pam has sent it to the public. that if it goes over the fiscal cliff republicans are prepared to make the middle class pay more tax paying more. and that is a very bad position for the republicans to find themselves in isn't it? >> sit a very bad position for them to find themselves in. the fact of the matter is, it isn't true. the taxes on the wealthiest americans, it doesn't address the core problems. the $16 trillion comes from government over spending and we have slow growth. raising the taxes on anybody whether it is on the poor or the other americans doesn't solve the problem. let's get in and figure ou
here we have america urging the israe israelis to negotiate except us in washington. our parties are so extreme. >> i think the moral is set so low right now on both sides. the country is so divided. we are the one that is are going to be handed down the $16 trillion deficit. it is hard for this to play out. they will come to some sort of a deal. you are going to see them come to a deal. you are going to see them with something sort of like the simpson bowles. >> pam has sent it to...
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urging to negotiate with everyone but us in washington. we don't negotiate. our parties are so extreme. i'm a relatively wealthy person. i want to be paying more taxes. i want our taxes to go to serve the policies of the country, education, charity, health care. i think that president obama's right about this. but i think compromise is going to be necessary to achieve some result. >> let me bring in abbe. your father is known as a moderate republican and a good dealmaker, a man who used to negotiate. what do you make of this? and what does he make of this? >> i think morale is so low right now. the country's so divided. especially for my generation. we're the ones that are going to be handed down the $60 trillion deficit. they will come to a deal. but right now, it's political theater. and it's probably going to look like the simpson-bowles. that will come full-circle again. >> here's a problem the republicans have got themselves into. is obama has been very clever here, the president. i think what he's done is skillfully said to the public, if he goes over t
urging to negotiate with everyone but us in washington. we don't negotiate. our parties are so extreme. i'm a relatively wealthy person. i want to be paying more taxes. i want our taxes to go to serve the policies of the country, education, charity, health care. i think that president obama's right about this. but i think compromise is going to be necessary to achieve some result. >> let me bring in abbe. your father is known as a moderate republican and a good dealmaker, a man who used...
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this is a dispute about the future of our federal budget and how we're going to operate washington. >> as we said earlier, there's there consensus that, oh, we'll get something, it's the congress. is that consensus beginning to waiver? >> it depends who i talk to, really. but i do think there is a movement towards your prooef guest tom cole, when he, i think it's been a couple of weeks ago, it was leak what he said. he said the republicans really ought to declare victory by going along with the senate democrats by passing the cuts on what people all agree on, those under $250,000 and see if they can't get the top rate back down again, it's hard to think that's not w where they end up so why not make it clean instead of ugly. >> i think it is true that many republicans are saying privately what tom cole said publicly con t on the show that the expedient and right thing to do is just agree to the losses, the tax rates going up for the wealthy and really submitting a tax reform that 39.6% will be moot. however, there was a very, very real fear among house republicans about getting primar
this is a dispute about the future of our federal budget and how we're going to operate washington. >> as we said earlier, there's there consensus that, oh, we'll get something, it's the congress. is that consensus beginning to waiver? >> it depends who i talk to, really. but i do think there is a movement towards your prooef guest tom cole, when he, i think it's been a couple of weeks ago, it was leak what he said. he said the republicans really ought to declare victory by going...
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. >> brianna keilar is live now from washington. we don't have a lot of details about what went on in that meeting. maybe if they're both not talking, that may be a good thing. >> that's right. in fact, we have almost absolutely no details. the things that really interesting, though, to observers here is the statement that came out from the white house and from the speaker's office. they're the same statement verbatim. they're not leaking details. and that's something that you may see as possibly a good thing. it's certainly not a bad thing. it means they're coordinating and trying to negotiate or speak with good faith here. so this is, as you mentioned, the first time that the two have met in the last 23 days. this is the first time that john boehner and president obama have met one-on-one since election day just to give you a sense. again, to stress no word on progress that they're really get being anywhe -- getting anywhere here. house republicans don't want to cave on the white house's demand, the tax income race, the income tax
. >> brianna keilar is live now from washington. we don't have a lot of details about what went on in that meeting. maybe if they're both not talking, that may be a good thing. >> that's right. in fact, we have almost absolutely no details. the things that really interesting, though, to observers here is the statement that came out from the white house and from the speaker's office. they're the same statement verbatim. they're not leaking details. and that's something that you may...
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baristas at the 120 starbucks in washington, d.c. were encouraged by management to add a shot of bipartisanship to their drink orders and remind customers in our nation's capital to come together. >> wall street is typically quiet her this time of year, of course, this last week of 2012 was marked by investor concerns over congress' new year's eve plans and that looming fiscal cliff. so what impact does it have on your money? alison deans is with us, senior adviser at varick asset management. nice to see you. happy new year. do you have two plans for 2012, one that includes the fiscal cliff and one that doesn't? how do you prepare for the new year as an investor? >> pretty much. i mean, the outcome, if there is some type of healthy resolution to the fiscal cliff, even if they defer it for a week or two but come up with some healthy resolution, i think it bodes really well for global markets. if we wind up going into fiscal cliff and the world loses any faith in our government to accomplish anything that's helpful or relevant, i think
baristas at the 120 starbucks in washington, d.c. were encouraged by management to add a shot of bipartisanship to their drink orders and remind customers in our nation's capital to come together. >> wall street is typically quiet her this time of year, of course, this last week of 2012 was marked by investor concerns over congress' new year's eve plans and that looming fiscal cliff. so what impact does it have on your money? alison deans is with us, senior adviser at varick asset...
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and travels to these remote areas in washington every summer as he says he confines untouched landscapes like this anywhere else in the world we're going off the list below sea line if i go wrong the wrong and surprise you will go straight to the water and so we did. one animal whose par you definitely wouldn't want to shake here is the brown bear you can literally spot agrees the here by every small river. where the bears are fishing but they have a very concise as well to be able to see that we have to keep an eye a wind direction and the distance between them and also told that could be dangerous so we're going just a shell but the record. and quietly went but the wind was not on our side and the bear got away another local resident who hates his piece being disturbed here is this callous sea eagle it has a wingspan of two and a half meters it ness only here in washes far east because of the bundles of salmon and seagulls which feed the giant bird in his studies if gainey focuses on birds so he took me to one of his favorite places here the mara island it has the biggest colony of sea
and travels to these remote areas in washington every summer as he says he confines untouched landscapes like this anywhere else in the world we're going off the list below sea line if i go wrong the wrong and surprise you will go straight to the water and so we did. one animal whose par you definitely wouldn't want to shake here is the brown bear you can literally spot agrees the here by every small river. where the bears are fishing but they have a very concise as well to be able to see that...
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united lost rebels join president assad in dismissing washington's chemical weapons fears as needed games while u.s. and regime freed slaves poised on syria's borders. it's one step forward one step by just as the american senate's launches a cold war era lawyers who trade it approves a visa ban it said russian officials provoking a promise of a similar move from the. international news line for moscow this is all she was mijnheer chicago hello and welcome to the program a long anticipated state address by egypt's president morsi has failed to silence the angry voices on the streets of cairo protesters claim his team of north their key demands by evolving to push along with a referendum on islam missed a lead constitution more on that from cairo based reporter true now. president mohamed morsi basically stuck by his decisions he said in his speech he said this consulate curation which was very contentious going to people described it as a power grab was essential basically in the transition period to democracy and very important protecting the constituent assembly which drafted the consti
united lost rebels join president assad in dismissing washington's chemical weapons fears as needed games while u.s. and regime freed slaves poised on syria's borders. it's one step forward one step by just as the american senate's launches a cold war era lawyers who trade it approves a visa ban it said russian officials provoking a promise of a similar move from the. international news line for moscow this is all she was mijnheer chicago hello and welcome to the program a long anticipated...
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>> 57. >> i was in washington. and in reykjavik and geneva on the reagan staff. >> with the russians -- from your point of view as a russian expert, what was going on in the russian mind as all of this was taking place? what was the importance of the emergence of gorbachev as the leader of the soviet union? >> there are a number of very important questions out there. i think we understand in retrospect, much better than we understood that the time. one of the misperceptions i believe we had was that the deployment of the ss-20s had been calculated in advance to be a threat to europe and to decouple the alliance. as we look back now, we can find they had not staffed whatsoever, it was largely about inertia of the military-industrial complex. they would build what they could end before ministry was not even consulted before their decision to deploy. we now know there was a minority of opinion in the foreign ministry after the deployment. because it would be seen as a threat to to western europe and it would bring a r
>> 57. >> i was in washington. and in reykjavik and geneva on the reagan staff. >> with the russians -- from your point of view as a russian expert, what was going on in the russian mind as all of this was taking place? what was the importance of the emergence of gorbachev as the leader of the soviet union? >> there are a number of very important questions out there. i think we understand in retrospect, much better than we understood that the time. one of the...
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that word could be used to describe a lot of what's going on in washington right now. we're 24 days away from beginning to go over the edge of a fiscal cliff, and seemingly no real talk. just, well, malarkey. there's one solution, of course, called compromise, a dirty word in washington, sure, but most americans, believe it or not, are in favor of it. according to a new gallup poll 62% of americans would like to see lawmakers compromise on an agreement to avoid the cliff. just 25% want leaders to stick to their party's principles on the issues of spending cuts and tax increases, and it's a sentiment both parties share. a majority of both parties favor compromise. 71% of democrats and 55% of republicans. so what's is going to take to get lawmakers to grow up and come to a compromise? cnn's kyung law went outside the beltway to find out. >> we cannot afford to extend the bush tax cuts for the wealthy. >> 700,000 jobs would be destroyed. >> >> two sides. ground into their positions. but they can meet in the middle. just ask tough negotiators outside the beltway. >> i am t
that word could be used to describe a lot of what's going on in washington right now. we're 24 days away from beginning to go over the edge of a fiscal cliff, and seemingly no real talk. just, well, malarkey. there's one solution, of course, called compromise, a dirty word in washington, sure, but most americans, believe it or not, are in favor of it. according to a new gallup poll 62% of americans would like to see lawmakers compromise on an agreement to avoid the cliff. just 25% want leaders...
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times" bureau chief joining us here in washington. you can'm wondering if provide an update on what is happening in tripoli from your vantage point. caller: i just spent a couple of days up there. it is the second set of web and on. -- city of lebanon. sunni muslims car the prevalent population and prevalent rebel group. there's been periodic combat there between sunni gunmen and people who are part of the sect. the resident, a think, 14 or 15 people killed. -- there has been, i think, 14 or 15 people killed. the has been battles up there. it feels like a mirror image of syria right now. host: are u.s. intelligence officials or military leaders talking to these circassian rebel groups? is there a line of communication-- syrian rebel groups? is there a line of communication with these potential leaders? caller: it is a little bit unclear who is a moderate. the range of fighters goes from very conservative islamic to groups that are like al qaeda. it is not clear who exactly the americans are trying to deal with. they want to deal with
times" bureau chief joining us here in washington. you can'm wondering if provide an update on what is happening in tripoli from your vantage point. caller: i just spent a couple of days up there. it is the second set of web and on. -- city of lebanon. sunni muslims car the prevalent population and prevalent rebel group. there's been periodic combat there between sunni gunmen and people who are part of the sect. the resident, a think, 14 or 15 people killed. -- there has been, i think, 14...
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based on the hope that our leaders in washington may be working on the fiscal cliff. someone might panic then. let's focus on a company that may get cheaper. there are two ways to value every company. that represents what traders are willing to pay for a piece of the company. that in mind i want to tell you a tale about a company that could be in the cross hairs of it and the company i'm talking about is mindsafety. prote protection devices. that is a lot of stuff that you need to do in the oil and gas industry. oil and gas companies, as well as law enforcement agencies and the military. why do i think that my safety is to be required? take vng come on, safety never takes a vacation and no one ever skimps on it. mine safety sold the body armor business. honey well is the safety division. what do we get? this is part of the safety division. due possible has a safety division. $53 share stock. $41 price tag. both honey well and dupont want to add to their safety offer. $1.4 billion to buy sperion. they invented kevlar. in 2008 they bought industrial apparel. it is one o
based on the hope that our leaders in washington may be working on the fiscal cliff. someone might panic then. let's focus on a company that may get cheaper. there are two ways to value every company. that represents what traders are willing to pay for a piece of the company. that in mind i want to tell you a tale about a company that could be in the cross hairs of it and the company i'm talking about is mindsafety. prote protection devices. that is a lot of stuff that you need to do in the oil...
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financial considerations were one of the reasons that brought peace washington state native to western siberia yet his main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared in the auditors in america average height was one seventy five i was one sixty seven or one sixty eight in so one eight centimeters would have brought me right to average if i just wanted to be average for women height isn't so important you know i think girl can be short and it's not a big deal i think a guy is like expected to be taller just before the operation most mad a russian girl who found he's a regional hide quite endearing yet he still want to have had the surgery adding seven more centimeters to he self-confidence she told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. so now or should i call you so what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations. and then welcome to business or to be with me dmitri medvedev it has been a. crisis wrecked year for many but some have been battered so hard they made into business short list of this year's biggest losers now
financial considerations were one of the reasons that brought peace washington state native to western siberia yet his main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared in the auditors in america average height was one seventy five i was one sixty seven or one sixty eight in so one eight centimeters would have brought me right to average if i just wanted to be average for women height isn't so important you know i think girl can be short and it's not a big deal i think a guy is like...
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. >> here in washington you are known as mr. anne applebaum. >> i am proud to be married to anne. >> seven years ago. >> he looks so young. >> does he look that young today? >> he looks wonderful. >> what does that mean that he is now a minister of poland? how does that figure into your interested? >> it does not figure in directly. i have a background in knowledge i would not have otherwise. he does not influence me in a direct way. he is not sitting with me in the archives while i am looking at what happened to the hungarian film director in 1947. having this connection gives me some empathy and what happened there. >> what are the residuals from >> what are the residuals from world war ii to today in eastern europe? anything? >> one of the things that happened since 1989 is the region we used to call eastern europe has become very differentiated. these countries no longer have anything in common with one another, except a common memory of communist occupation. poland is as different as greece is from some land.-- finland. eur
. >> here in washington you are known as mr. anne applebaum. >> i am proud to be married to anne. >> seven years ago. >> he looks so young. >> does he look that young today? >> he looks wonderful. >> what does that mean that he is now a minister of poland? how does that figure into your interested? >> it does not figure in directly. i have a background in knowledge i would not have otherwise. he does not influence me in a direct way. he is not...
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many of these so-called nones held a rally in washington to show their clout. but the nones are not completely secular. a new survey by pew and this program found that two-thirds of the unaffiliated say they do believe in god or a universal spirit. more than half describe themselves as "spiritual but not religious." advocates of gay marriage saw new momentum. in the november elections, three more states legalized same-sex marriage-the first time it had been approved in ballot initiatives. and voters in minnesota rejected a proposed ban on gay marriage. both sides of the debate were galvanized by the supreme court's announcement that it will be taking up two cases with national implications in the spring. ten years after the catholic church's clergy sex abuse crisis exploded, a high-ranking priest in philadelphia became the first church official to be convicted for failing to report abuse. monsignor william lynn was found guilty of child endangerment and sentenced to up to six years in prison. and in kansas city, bishop robert finn was convicted of a misdemeanor
many of these so-called nones held a rally in washington to show their clout. but the nones are not completely secular. a new survey by pew and this program found that two-thirds of the unaffiliated say they do believe in god or a universal spirit. more than half describe themselves as "spiritual but not religious." advocates of gay marriage saw new momentum. in the november elections, three more states legalized same-sex marriage-the first time it had been approved in ballot...
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simplify the tax code for tax complexity has washington revolves around it. they lose the power for the brainpower to doing productive things. and so yes, the thing to remember about spending if the money doesn't come from the head. it comes from you. you spit it out to politically favored constituent groups. that's not stimulus, more like waste. >> host: just go back to your original point, would you like to see no floating currencies. we had it for 180 years. it provides stability and value is 60 minutes, 16 ounces in a pound. so it doesn't restrict money supplied to have a vibrant economy of blossoms. a stagnant economy stays stagnant. what it means is if you make a contract to years from now that a fixed amount of dollars from the value of the dollar to years of the same messages today. when you make an investment company you are in effect when you value that investment is the future stream of income and net present value. so if your facebook shoes because you think it's going to pretend times in the next five years, you don't know what the dollars going
simplify the tax code for tax complexity has washington revolves around it. they lose the power for the brainpower to doing productive things. and so yes, the thing to remember about spending if the money doesn't come from the head. it comes from you. you spit it out to politically favored constituent groups. that's not stimulus, more like waste. >> host: just go back to your original point, would you like to see no floating currencies. we had it for 180 years. it provides stability and...
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. >> schieffer: maya, you have been one of the go-to people in washington on this, in terms of crunching numbers and figuring out the impact of these proposals. you talk to us and help us understand it. tell us a little about this organization, your organization "campaign to fix the debt." what exactly are you trying to do? >> well, the campaign to fix the debt was really born out of some of the issues surrounding issues of the debt ceiling. people around the country became painfully aware the divisions in washington are may be so large we will harm our economy and harm our problem as they fail to solve problems and work these things out. over the past year, we have been joined by 300,000 saturdays, 100 of the leading ceoas, and small businesses who have said we need fix the debt, that we know. but we wanted to create a different kind of campaign where we come to washington, and while you have so many folks on side saying, "don't touch this. don't touch this. take this off the table." suddenly you're left with nothing on the table to fick the problem. we wanted to create a broad-based bi
. >> schieffer: maya, you have been one of the go-to people in washington on this, in terms of crunching numbers and figuring out the impact of these proposals. you talk to us and help us understand it. tell us a little about this organization, your organization "campaign to fix the debt." what exactly are you trying to do? >> well, the campaign to fix the debt was really born out of some of the issues surrounding issues of the debt ceiling. people around the country...
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and a lot -- some much of washington is politics. one of my favorite rumors that the spread was that i was actually going to switch parties and become a republican can run for office as a republican. this is one of their rumors. the press would say we have the treasury. you have to put politics. early on in with something that mr. lewis. he sort of say, hey, i'm a democrat. i contributed to president obama pier rihanna i feel about putting an airport that i know is going to hit them right between the gas. the answer to that question is i took an oath of office. i put my hand on the family bible and swore to uphold the job that i would do. and that had a control. we had to put those issues behind us and do the job that we were sent to washington to do. >> host: did you meet with president george w. bush or barack obama? >> guest: arm sari. >> host: did you meet with george w. bush or barack obama? >> guest: nighter one. we always wanted to five nsa we because i went down with my deputy. it was really great to have in there. we really
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the threat comes from washington and wall street. i make that new arguments in the new edition of "wealth and poverty." >> george gilder come you rate the united states over the last decade has witnessed a classic confrontation between the forces of entrepreneurial capitalism and those of established institutions, claiming a higher virtue, expertise and political standing. once i subsist on unforced for the enterprise. the other on branson told some privileges at the treasury, the federal reserve and the white house. >> that is exactly what we've had. when michael lewis wrote up a bit short. he is writing about all the jackal of hedge funds and the bed against the big banks were all supporting these subprime mortgages concoctions, confections and scans. it was all the most prestigious forces in both u.s. and the world economy that backed the blindsided by collet, people who are investing in these crazy concocted mortgage securities in which the value was totally unknown by the people investing in a period the people shorting means we
the threat comes from washington and wall street. i make that new arguments in the new edition of "wealth and poverty." >> george gilder come you rate the united states over the last decade has witnessed a classic confrontation between the forces of entrepreneurial capitalism and those of established institutions, claiming a higher virtue, expertise and political standing. once i subsist on unforced for the enterprise. the other on branson told some privileges at the treasury,...
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with all of the money printing in washington and inflation creeping up. some say it's smart to holding collectibles to your lineup to stay in the game. >> we need to gis distinguishbed investments. and some of these can be rewarding particularly if we see higher inflation in the years to come. >> you can easily unload yourb u can for a stock or bond. there will be a healthy demand for the yankee slugger that built the house but now houses the dirt. babe ruth went for record prices. >> he is the face of baseballanp in time. >> not to mention a good facef . john stocks would you mind signing this? >> have you got a basketball? >> susie: on wall street traders popped open thgnchpaame on hopes a fiscal cliff deal was imminent. big board volume climbed to 730 million shares. six stocks were up for each one that was down. over on the nasdaq volume was more than twice as heavy at 1.5 billion shares. on the sector front, we saw gains of at least 2% in technology, energy and materiapa related stocks. financials were the strongest group this year, rising overr 26%.
with all of the money printing in washington and inflation creeping up. some say it's smart to holding collectibles to your lineup to stay in the game. >> we need to gis distinguishbed investments. and some of these can be rewarding particularly if we see higher inflation in the years to come. >> you can easily unload yourb u can for a stock or bond. there will be a healthy demand for the yankee slugger that built the house but now houses the dirt. babe ruth went for record prices....
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senior fellow at the brookings institution, professor at georgetown university and columnist for "the washington post." welcome to you all. kim has put together a short video reminder of what happened in 2012. >> a wave of mass shootings renewed age-old theological discussions about evil, suffering and tragedy. especially after the massacre at the connecticut elementary school, many religious leaders repeated calls for stricter gun control measures. some called it a pro-life issue. one of the mass shootings took place in a house of worship. in august, six people were killed when a gunman opened fire at a sikh temple in oak creek, wisconsin. once again, religion played an important role in the presidential election. for the first time ever, there were no white protestants on either ticket. although there wasn't a lot of god talk from president obama or mitt romney, grassroots religious groups were active on both sides. evangelical voters were divided dung t primary season, but in the end, they rallied around romney, despite some concerns about voting for a mormon candidate. still, their support d
senior fellow at the brookings institution, professor at georgetown university and columnist for "the washington post." welcome to you all. kim has put together a short video reminder of what happened in 2012. >> a wave of mass shootings renewed age-old theological discussions about evil, suffering and tragedy. especially after the massacre at the connecticut elementary school, many religious leaders repeated calls for stricter gun control measures. some called it a pro-life...
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washington journal begins live each morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >>> chief of staff had to make the plan for the innovation of japan without considering the atomic bomb. it was estimated that the land would cost 700 men with 250,000 -- be at the bko and 500,000 to be named. >>> as harry truman's grandson somebody in the middle. i have to -- i choose to honor both. both the sacrifice and sacrifice of american servicemen fighting their way through the pacific and i have a little girl like? who died as a result of the atomic bombing. it's unimaginable what that must have been like to be close to that to the hype center where that fire ball originated in the blast and blast was strongest. >> follow him on the journey now hiroshima on american history tv. the president's eldest grandson joins us in washington for the inspiration of the trip at 9:00 p.m. eastern. [bells rings] >> twenty five years ago the u.s. and soviet union signed a treat dwhrai removed thousand of nuclear i missiles from europe. that recount. the discussion was ho
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partisan issue but trying to an idiot because you just don't exploit what you just you know i mean washington who played way and even up there one holds her still you know isn't broken away from the finances and i think you need all the success unnecessarily restore came in he then took on the banks direct when you read his inauguration speech it was all about trying the money lenders out of the temple so it takes a change like that banks really said i didn't buy documents mean maybe it's a bank so what's most that they saw banks they didn't know they were engaged in fraudulent activity to be in jail or incompetent but a lot i mean now what he said and then he because of this i mean the lines cross respect you know in the not thing audience bill white was initiated back then could about three hundred people go on bots now the saving a lot of the attacks. but often some of the only possible on bosses bernie madoff. made off of the fed know the record of that makes them put it can be dangerous congressman ron paul if it is working franticly their editorial izing they've hired a lobbyist and the
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financial considerations were one of the reasons that brought this washington state native to western siberia yet his main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared in the otter's in america advertised as one seventy five i was one sixty seven or one sixty eight and so one eight centimeters would have brought me right to average so i just wanted to be average for women height isn't so important you know i think girl can be short and it's not a big deal i think a guy is like expected to be taller just before the operation moses mad at russian girl who found he's a regional hide quite in dealing yet he still want to have a day surgery adding seven more centimeters to he self-confidence she told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. so now it's like oh you're so what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations. from our studios here in moscow. the news continues now on russia's foreign minister believes it's wrong to ban americans from adopting russian children but said the u.s. should take responsibility for any dissent t
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washington we have a very big problem. not voting on plan b . it must have gone behind the 20 votes that were expected to be lobbed off from speaker boehner's cotroying get that. it makes you wonder how many were part of this avalanche that told the speaker, no way in heck we're going for this. have is the stance we're looking at. it will not be resolved tomorrow. this week. or next week. because remember, you have christmas next week. chances are, knowing these guys as i did do, they will not be keen to work christmas eve, and christmas day, that takes us to next wednesday, only a little more than a week ahead of the government possibly hitting a cliff. are you surprised? not at all. a great tragic comedy, neil, they will keep you in a job for the rest of your life reporting on that. neil: i am not too shocked. i thought this dismissive you, that house leadership had of their rumbling ranks they would swallow this, i didn't see it, a lot of these tea party congressmen, 80 some odd that help propel john boehner to speaker got alleged against hav
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the chairs in washington, made up of about 25 or 30 leaders of the conservative movement, presence of organizations, and it -- and it includes a libertarians. it includes the christian conservatives. includes the foreign-policy conservatives, neil conservatives commandery pretty much all along. i don't think there are very many things we disagree on. we discussed every issue that comes along every week, and we also have two meetings per year and bring in the heads of about 100 conservative organizations. we just had 12 or three weeks ago just after the election. i can say that they are as enthusiastic as ever. the movement continues to grow. there are always new young writers, along. there are all sorts of periodicals, of course. things that are talked vibrant for any movement like that that is going to stay alive. i think generally speaking given the ups and downs of politics, it is probably in as good a shape as it ever has been. i am the chairman of the intercollegiate studies institute. others of you on this from certain to participate. again, it is an organization of students tha
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the latest round of a lot of economic sanctions against iran was implemented less than two weeks ago washington and its allies imposed restrictions in an attempt to curb iran's nuclear program which tehran maintains is peaceful. a taliban attack on a police station has left at least eight people dead in pakistan's northwestern city of new details of how that assault unfolded are still unclear but according to some reports insurgents had fired rockets at the gate and then bombarded the station with grenades banu a situated on the edge of pakistan's rest of the tribal belt plagued by insurgency is often targeted by armed militants. meanwhile the militant group hamas will not give up an inch of palestinian territories that is according to the organization's political leader khaled mashal who was speaking on his last day of a visit to gaza he also slammed israel for the occupation of palestinian lands and refused to recognize the country's the missing israel responded that it would never unilaterally withdraw from the west bank saying that what undermined its security in the country criticized the
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as washington continues to make a moral case for its covert wars on terror yemen is presented as a place that is full of terrorists getting ready to attack america but very few think of yemen as a chokepoint of vast economic interests yemen is the poorest country in the middle east but it's sitting on one of the most important trade routes in the wall the bubble may end up straight most people have heard about the southwest canal world war three almost broke out over the canal right that's how important it is but bob amanda doesn't instantly ring a bell although it's basically an extension of this west canal and it is a similar strategic importance almost all of europe's trade with china japan india and the rest of asia passes through babel mendez every day that's how important it is some argue that washington sees terrorism in yemen as a problem in a sense that it could have an adverse impact on economic interests at stake the united states wouldn't be engaged in such a conflict in yemen if it didn't hold very specific geo political and strategic you said city or the u.s. i think most i
as washington continues to make a moral case for its covert wars on terror yemen is presented as a place that is full of terrorists getting ready to attack america but very few think of yemen as a chokepoint of vast economic interests yemen is the poorest country in the middle east but it's sitting on one of the most important trade routes in the wall the bubble may end up straight most people have heard about the southwest canal world war three almost broke out over the canal right that's how...
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people here in washington don't seem to understand that if you don't like the government in cairo or if you do like the government in cairo i guess i should say then you will love the government the comes to power in damascus because you will see a sunni muslim islamised government a muslim brotherhood style government that is absolutely intolerant fundamentally hostile to the west washington has failed to officially denounce the many suicide bombings perpetrated by the rebels in syria preferring to focus on the wrongs committed by the assad regime alone the u.s. is also ramping up the rhetoric about the possibility of the assad government using chemical weapons against civilians something that damascus says would be suicidal on the other hand many rebels are not averse to the idea of suicide in the name of what they call a holy war militants have recently taken control of a toxic chemical plant in the country's second city of aleppo a video was uploaded to youtube showing them testing chemical weapons on rabbits we could not independently verify the authenticity of the footage. you
people here in washington don't seem to understand that if you don't like the government in cairo or if you do like the government in cairo i guess i should say then you will love the government the comes to power in damascus because you will see a sunni muslim islamised government a muslim brotherhood style government that is absolutely intolerant fundamentally hostile to the west washington has failed to officially denounce the many suicide bombings perpetrated by the rebels in syria...
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. >> next, your calls and comments on "washington journal." than a discussion on the future of syria. a forum of the impact of the latino population in future elections. >> i wanted to explain how this totalitarianism happens. we do know the story of the cold war. we know the documents. we have seen the archives that describe relationships between stalin, church hill, and truman. we know the events from our point of view. i wanted to show from a different angle from the ground up, what did it feel like to be one of the people who work subjected to this system. how did people make choices and how did they react in the cave? one of the things that has happened since 1999 is the region we used to call eastern europe has become differentiated. these countries no longer have much of in common with each other. >> from the end of world war ii through 1956. from "iron curtain" on c-span a &a. >> how states are bracing for sequestration. the schedule for january affecting many agencies and
. >> next, your calls and comments on "washington journal." than a discussion on the future of syria. a forum of the impact of the latino population in future elections. >> i wanted to explain how this totalitarianism happens. we do know the story of the cold war. we know the documents. we have seen the archives that describe relationships between stalin, church hill, and truman. we know the events from our point of view. i wanted to show from a different angle from the...
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americans across the us have gone on line to say that they want their region to be independent from washington parties morea part i.i. trying to find out why some u.s. nationals are eager to rip the stars and stripes apart. tonight. with more to wonder here is that for a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny. the test of perfecting of our european moves forward was four weeks following barack obama's reelection nearly one million americans have moved forward by campaigning to break apart all fifty states have filed online petitions with the white house requesting to peacefully secede from this so-called perfecting union a movement that's garnered more than thirty thousand signatures in north carolina where many like michael toggled. see independence as a symbol may twentieth a consistent one is the day that north carolina sated from the union and america's stars and stripes ripping at the seams there's no doubt in my mind that it is inevitable i mean something like this with the debt this country has with the growing disunion among in the among the people they can't last for
americans across the us have gone on line to say that they want their region to be independent from washington parties morea part i.i. trying to find out why some u.s. nationals are eager to rip the stars and stripes apart. tonight. with more to wonder here is that for a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny. the test of perfecting of our european moves forward was four weeks following barack obama's reelection nearly one million americans have moved forward by campaigning to...
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good afternoon most of the capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for thursday december twentieth two thousand and twelve in the u.s. as the fiscal cliff approaches reuters reports republicans are aiming to vote today in the house on a plan which obama promptly says he would veto meanwhile fitch has warned the u.s. could lose its aaa credit rating if washington doesn't get a deal to treat what we call economy no this may all feel like deja vu and maybe it will all turn out fine maybe it won't though where do you want to place your bets we'll talk to the daily reckoning eric brian and joe bowman about their choices was a german study finds paying taxes has a positive impact on a person's subjective well being no word on what the findings would bring in the west but if you are counting on taxation to make you feel like your quality of life is on the up and up state side we'll talk about some other economic options and the opec of maple syrup has been robbed millions of dollars worth of the hot commodity has been stolen from ca
good afternoon most of the capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for thursday december twentieth two thousand and twelve in the u.s. as the fiscal cliff approaches reuters reports republicans are aiming to vote today in the house on a plan which obama promptly says he would veto meanwhile fitch has warned the u.s. could lose its aaa credit rating if washington doesn't get a deal to treat what we call economy no this may all feel like deja vu and...
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should take responsibility for any dissent that a freeze could be part of moscow's response to washington so called act what if you got a position of reports. he was a russia lawyer who is suspected of being involved in money laundering he died in prison before a court could make a decision on this case the act passed recently in the us is a law which allows sanctioning russian officials suspected of being connected to human rights violations but by many in moscow it's seen as an anti russian law and a proper response to it has become a source of some heated debate some deputies of the state duma want to see the response include banning all americans from adopting russian children in connection with all the cases of abuse sometimes even that's like the story of twenty one months a year old. who was suffocated to death after his adoptive american father left him in a locked car on a hot day in the open sun or the story one. american adoptive mother put her child on a plane back to russia along carrying only some underwear and a note and it's not only the cases themselves but the. please to
should take responsibility for any dissent that a freeze could be part of moscow's response to washington so called act what if you got a position of reports. he was a russia lawyer who is suspected of being involved in money laundering he died in prison before a court could make a decision on this case the act passed recently in the us is a law which allows sanctioning russian officials suspected of being connected to human rights violations but by many in moscow it's seen as an anti russian...
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to bomb them as washington see fit and friendly enough not to mess with this vital trade really enough not to mess with that kind of a prop by the united states as often lead to eliminating much of the local population that sooner or later gets the sense that their government is serving its own interests and the interest of those thousands of miles away in washington i'm going to. ration is sounding the retreat as the cost of conflict become too much to bat in the few minutes we pull from the rush to pull its troops from afghanistan because the bill's pretty indefensible sunt. traps about and we can add said julian assange says his whistle blowing web site is ready to reveal more game changing data next had dressed his supporters and the media that gathered outside the ecuadorian embassy in london where he's been and six months. the world's media and a lot of supporters have come out for him this evening also holding a candlelight vigil he called the crowd when he came out a sight for sore eyes and then he mocked his six months in the embassy by talking about it saying that he entered
to bomb them as washington see fit and friendly enough not to mess with this vital trade really enough not to mess with that kind of a prop by the united states as often lead to eliminating much of the local population that sooner or later gets the sense that their government is serving its own interests and the interest of those thousands of miles away in washington i'm going to. ration is sounding the retreat as the cost of conflict become too much to bat in the few minutes we pull from the...
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. >> here in washington you are known as mr. anne applebaum. >> i am proud to be married to anne. >> seven years ago. >> he looks so young. >> does he look that young today? >> he looks wonderful. >> what does that mean that he is now a minister of poland? how does that figure into your interested? >> it does not figure in directly. i have a background in knowledge i would not have otherwise. he does not influence me in a direct way. he is not sitting with me in the archives while i am looking of what happened to the hon. film director in 1947, -- while i am looking at what happened to the hungarian film director in 1947. having this connection gives me some empathy and what happened there. >> what are the residuals from two today in i eastern europe? anything? >> one of the things that happened since 1989 is the region we used to call eastern europe has become very differentiated. these countries no longer have anything in common with one another, except a common memory of communist occupation. poland is as different as greece
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organizations the united states will explain you know its definition of who is a legitimate target washington is helping the current yemeni government you know order for it not to fail and to be friendly to the us friendly enough to allow the us to bomb them as washington sees fit and friendly enough not to mess with this vital trade route but historically that kind of a prop by the united states has often led to eliminating much of the local population that sooner or later gets the sense that their government is serving its own interests and the interests of those thousands of miles away in washington i'm going to. you want to go to your business coming up here with dmitri after this quick break. divine power in action i debate. this. because we are under the control of those governing you so we're at the service of a space mafia. i found that the magnetic field of the sun will be. to create the support that just. after the second coming it will be a beautiful place it will receive its glory it will be a renewed world and it will be a beautiful place. the best. little stuff just ammunition.
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washington is also concerned about the weapons and his name down a red line threatening rep a caution is if they're used by either side given the recent advances on the battlefield this is where it gets hold of the no thank you meanwhile rebel groups are uniting on that one military command latest western supported effort to topple the assad regime but he spoke to a political activist who says fighters could stage a chemical attack to discredit the guy whose opinion away from military intervention. the danger is that the west is aware of such materials in syria at the same time it's going to be used against the syrian government as a pretext for intervention united states has recently started listing parts of the syrian armed opposition all of the armed opposition in syria as terrorist organizations that say something that is probably aware of that part of the of the armed opposition in syria and probably they seem most powerful part of the armed opposition who are the no surprise probably aren't possession of sir such materials and probably are planning to use them. britain says e.u.
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generals the latest round of economic sanctions against iran was implemented less than two weeks ago washington and its allies imposed of the restrictions in an attempt to curb iran's nuclear program which tehran maintains is peaceful. if five point six magnitude earthquake has hit the southern philippines there were no immediate reports of casualties following the tremors this comes just days after the country was devastated by a deadly typhoon that storm claimed the lives of more than six hundred people and left a nearly four hundred thousand homeless while almost a thousand are still missing. the united nations says south sudan's army has killed ten protesters during demonstrations against of the relocation of. local council headquarters the u.n. spokesperson said it was not clear if any people in the crowd were armed or if the army had been provoked south sudan declared independence from its northern neighbor last year ending decades of civil war between the countries. is the e.u. pursuing at the goal of a united europe at the expense of individual nations the issue take center stage in the
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nothing in washington is as annoyed. but certainly nothing. they may have threatened my career or tried to, my financial ability, you know, my reputation is subject to all those things. but nothing like that. >> host: this citizen of the world twitter person says will will you take the sec position of fast? >> oh, of course. i'm not holding my breath. simon johnson was kind enough to suggest that i would be a worthy successor to mary schapiro. but my greatest professional license would be to have a strong impact. and i would do it in a heartbeat. that being said, while i appreciate -- greatly appreciate this, i don't think it is incredibly likely i will be getting this going forward. >> host: susan from fort lauderdale. you are on again with neil barofsky. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. i would like you to name names. who are these criminals. how can we get them into prison? >> guest: i think unfortunately we are running out of time. you know, there is a five-year statute of limitations for most of the activity that would've left the
nothing in washington is as annoyed. but certainly nothing. they may have threatened my career or tried to, my financial ability, you know, my reputation is subject to all those things. but nothing like that. >> host: this citizen of the world twitter person says will will you take the sec position of fast? >> oh, of course. i'm not holding my breath. simon johnson was kind enough to suggest that i would be a worthy successor to mary schapiro. but my greatest professional license...
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to washington's magnitsky bill accusing russians of the same more night. and also online how's this for a threat that apple's notorious new iphone maps are labeled life threatening australia for misleading travelers to phantom talents in the sporting outback. there's unrest on the markets after italy's technocrat prime minister mario monti announced his plans to leave before silvio berlusconi has thrown his hat into the ring again after he withdrew his party support for the government want to says he'll go after next year's budget is passed which could see an election in february much older than expected that's where the greek prime minister is trying to secure more support from germany's wealthy and conservative region a very early at greece's credit is a greater profit out with another forty four billion euros greek attorney and georgia culture garson means real solutions to a long way off so most cause me to stone walling says listen. but unfortunately. it isn't easy to. control just that you go to example even to the. national military fund. but of cou
to washington's magnitsky bill accusing russians of the same more night. and also online how's this for a threat that apple's notorious new iphone maps are labeled life threatening australia for misleading travelers to phantom talents in the sporting outback. there's unrest on the markets after italy's technocrat prime minister mario monti announced his plans to leave before silvio berlusconi has thrown his hat into the ring again after he withdrew his party support for the government want to...
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good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for friday nov thirtieth two thousand and twelve the fiscal cliff continues to drive the news cycle and washington politics meanwhile the wall street journal reports it's pushing us i.p.o.'s stock sales and mergers as sellers feared taxes on investment gains could go up next year now despite news like this and even if by efforts to promote i.p.o. bubbles the number of companies going public continues to be down significantly from highs in the nineteen nineties who why would we want this. why would we ever want to bubble party private equity advisor william janeway is here to explain why bubbles are sometimes good plus u.s. corporate profits hit a record high in the third quarter according to the bureau of economic analysis with these profits why are we seeing more business investment to fuel innovation will discuss and we hear about sovereign credit downgrade and warnings of those downgrades all the time in the wake of the debt crisis and austerity in europe b
good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for friday nov thirtieth two thousand and twelve the fiscal cliff continues to drive the news cycle and washington politics meanwhile the wall street journal reports it's pushing us i.p.o.'s stock sales and mergers as sellers feared taxes on investment gains could go up next year now despite news like this and even if by efforts to promote i.p.o. bubbles the number of companies going...
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stocks headed south on wall street as debate over the fiscal cliff heated up in washington. adding to those worries, word that fitch ratings repeated its threat to strip the u.s. of its triple "a" credit rating if we go over the cliff. the dow fell 99 points, the nasdaq lost 10, the s&p down 11. >> tom: u.b.s., the big swiss bank, is putting accusations of interest rate manipulation behind it. the bank will pay $1.5 billion to settle charges of rigging a key international lending rate. the u.s. justice department also filed criminal charges against two u.b.s. traders, and a unit of the bank itself. the agency calls the bank's conduct, "simply astonishing." >> hundreds of trillions of dollars in mortgages, student loans, credit card debt, financial derivatives and other financial products worldwide are tied to libor, which serves as the premier benchmark for short term interest rates. in short, the global marketplace depends upon all of us relying on an accurate libor. yet u.b.s., like barclay's before it, sought repeatedly to fix libor for its own ends. >> tom: the probe int
stocks headed south on wall street as debate over the fiscal cliff heated up in washington. adding to those worries, word that fitch ratings repeated its threat to strip the u.s. of its triple "a" credit rating if we go over the cliff. the dow fell 99 points, the nasdaq lost 10, the s&p down 11. >> tom: u.b.s., the big swiss bank, is putting accusations of interest rate manipulation behind it. the bank will pay $1.5 billion to settle charges of rigging a key international...
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>>guest: well, we don't need anymore revenue in washington, that is clear. we have enough revenue to run our constitutional functions but if we are going to talk about making a deal with the democrats, be serious about it. so far, neither has been matter serious. if republics want to talk about it they have to put pentagon spending on the table. if democrats want to talk about it we have to have entitlement reform but the deal has to be bigger than we are talking about. right now they are only talking about dealing with things that could resolve a tenth of the problem. we need to resolve the whole problem because we headed for a real financial crisis. >> you don't like the idea of making a promise to address the more serious issues next year, you want did see some numbers, even tentative numbers, this year. >>guest: well, congress has been making promises for decade and that is why we are where we are and we have a $16 trillion debt. every person in this country has $50,000 in debt that is responsible, the responsibility congress. that is where congress put
>>guest: well, we don't need anymore revenue in washington, that is clear. we have enough revenue to run our constitutional functions but if we are going to talk about making a deal with the democrats, be serious about it. so far, neither has been matter serious. if republics want to talk about it they have to put pentagon spending on the table. if democrats want to talk about it we have to have entitlement reform but the deal has to be bigger than we are talking about. right now they are...
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. >> tomorrow >> tomorrow and "washington journal" the fix the debt campaign, a ball by the teacher of special operations with linda robinson with the council on correlation -- foreign relations. >> next, bbc parliament's westminster review takes a look back at all the major reviews. the debates with the prime minister on the british economy and the european union budget. the british parliament is in recess for the holidays. members return on january 7th. >> hello there. and welcome to the west minister review. our look back at the big events in parliament over the last three months. coming up in this program, the chancellor delivers the latest bleak economic view? his budget. david cameron's bench urges him to stand up to europe. >> i support absolutely. >> the ugly specter of child abuse hits the deadlines with some dramatic consequences. lord justin levisohn delivers his plan on press standards. >> we should be wary of any legislation that has the potential to infringe free speech and a free press. >> the queen sits in on a cabinet meeting at number 10. but let's begin with the subj
. >> tomorrow >> tomorrow and "washington journal" the fix the debt campaign, a ball by the teacher of special operations with linda robinson with the council on correlation -- foreign relations. >> next, bbc parliament's westminster review takes a look back at all the major reviews. the debates with the prime minister on the british economy and the european union budget. the british parliament is in recess for the holidays. members return on january 7th. >>...